In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MANCHET
Noun
manchet (countable and uncountable, plural manchets)
(Scotland, obsolete) A type of high-quality bread made from flour.
Source: Wiktionary
Man"chet, n.
Definition: Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread. [Archaic] Bacon. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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